Category: To save the planet invest your working life

Hello friends… you are here because you asked yourself, “How do I do my part?” It’s OK to start small, but get moving immediately… even in modest ways in your day to day life. Have confidence that you will learn as you…

An excellent action handbook comes to us from Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize winner and world leader of the fight to slow the emerging climate crisis. His 2017 book Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help…

As a business person and a climate solutions fan, I look for trends where the two intersect. Corporations and families are learning to nullify greenhouse gas pollution produced by their operations or by family energy and travel. How? Pay others to…

Here’s a great article from The Guardian, reporting that “electric cars are already cheaper to own and run than petrol or diesel cars in the UK, US and Japan, new research shows.” This data confirms my own experience as an…

Our goal is to stop or adapt to the emerging climate crisis. We are not trying to convince anyone how dangerous it is, but rather will focus on sharing global warming solutions with those who already acknowledge the problem but…

One of our most powerful global warming solutions is: "If we take care of healthy soil, Mother Earth will take care of us." The methods to get healthy soil are called regenerative agriculture. Essentially, we want to put more organic material…

This talk by James Sweeney of Stanford University greatly clarified my thinking about solutions to global warming: His research shows that energy-efficiency is THE BIGGEST heavy hitter solution - it has reduced greenhouse gas emissions three to four times more, historically, than…

There are many ways to green our daily lives… but a great tool most people don’t think of is greening our investments. In particular, at least stop doing harm by dumping any investment in oil, coal or natural gas companies…

Get started, taking action on solutions to our emerging climate crisis… while celebrating good jobs and clean, prosperous lives for millions. In a very real sense, we are inventing the healthy civilization of the future. It starts with YOU. The…

Why WOULDN'T anyone want to go work in Hawaii for a few years? Here's a great piece from Fast Company, "Hawaii Just Passed a Law to Make the State Carbon-Neutral by 2045." This creates good jobs and business opportunities in…

Who knew fighting global warming could taste so good? Yummy plant-based meat substitutes are a rapidly growing new market, not just saving the planet but in the process also creating great new jobs as well as a solid business opportunity. …

Soon it will be time to get in on the emerging carbon fiber industry... especially now that researchers can make the ultrastrong, ultralight steel-replacement out of plants instead of petroleum, as explained in this article in Popular Science by Jeremiah…

Tesla and Panasonic have launched the most exciting home construction product in decades: Attractive high-end roofing tiles that look like expensive slate, and capture the sun's energy for home electricity use. Think of it: We periodically need a new roof…

Aside from its attractive and continuing cost reductions, wind energy also provides solid local jobs as large wind farms are built. Here is an in-depth profile of Oklahoma's massive Wind Catcher wind farm project; it may well hold the title…

I had the pleasure of attending my third Tesla annual shareholders meeting yesterday, at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Among founder Elon Musk's comments, one theme stuck out for me: Tesla is growing, a lot. Therefore, the…

Here's a thoughtful overview of the clean energy job market, from Rod Griffin of the Environmental Defense Fund's quarterly magazine, EDF Solutions. Good news: There is money to be made here, not to mention saving the planet... as Griffin points…

Here's is a fun wind farm video, from the windshield of a vehicle touring the giant wind farm in Mojave, California... in the vast deserts stretching east toward Arizona from California's fertile Central Valley. Large-scale wind farms are springing up…

If you have a strong conviction on a social-change issue, there are really only three tactics you can use (Superpowers we all share, really). They come from you, and only you... Change Yourself, or Invest Your Working Life, or Use…

As we are seeing today in California, "Britain has proved the doom-mongers wrong: economies can thrive while emissions fall..." To me this makes obvious sense for two reasons: One, climate solutions generate new and lucrative industries, especially creating high-wage-high-skill jobs.…

Here's a discussion on how smart factories and energy efficiency help company success while reducing carbon footprint. The event was a breakout lecture at last summer's Silicon Valley Energy Summit at Stanford University. The speakers are Mark Johnson, U.S. Department of…

Clean wind energy is producing jobs at a fine growth pace... inspiring confidence in the wind industry. If you are a young person looking for a way to invest your career in a trade which saves the planet, wind energy…

Nice investigative piece from this week's Bloomberg... on how poorly prepared for climate adaptation Alaska currently is, given the much-warmer winters its economy now experiences. But, not obviously, there are a BOATLOAD of new jobs coming in the climate adaptation…

In art or music, it pays to learn from the Masters... why reinvent paths a genius has already blazed for us? So for job search, glean leads from lists others have already compiled in the advanced-energy sector: Trade associations, think…

The second of our great Superpowers is: "If you want to save the planet, Invest Your Working Life." I really enjoyed this podcast by Greentech Media's Stephen Lacey, "The Future of Work: Advice for Building a Cleantech Career in a Rapidly Changing Economy."…

I really like Al Gore, and appreciate a morale-builder he shares with audiences, to soften some of the emotion climate change causes folks. This is from an interview he gave Amazon: "I often open the slideshow by talking about the…

Since we all have to go to work anyway, we may as well choose jobs on the side of good rather than evil… There are 2.5 million jobs already in America’s advanced energy sector, plus more in other fields that…

Global warming is a devilish problem, because our greenhouse gas pollution comes mostly from fossil fuels which infect every area of our civilization. But though daunting, fossil fuels are where we must focus the big solutions, ones that really stand…

Global Warming for Busy People is a free service open to all, a labor of love really, by our authors. We are in Spring of 2017 starting free one-on-one mentoring services, to help you make a life change in any…

Maximize the effective time and skills each of us brings, without wrecking our personal lives: To Save the Planet, Change Yourself First. To Save the Planet, Invest Your Career. To Save the Planet, Use Your Voice. (The steps do NOT…

The biggest issue facing civilization today, "how to slow down catastrophic global warming so we have time to create the sustainable, clean economy of the future," quickly comes back to the personal level: "Ok, I get it... What can I…